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Green Haven Correctional Facility
Green Haven Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in New York. The prison is located in the Town of Beekman in Dutchess County. The New York State Department of Correctional Services lists the address as Route 216, Stormville, NY 12582. This prison housed New York's death row during the time the state briefly had the death penalty (but never used it) in the post-Furman era. New York's electric chair "old sparky" was moved here from the Ossining prison. It was originally a federal prison and now houses maximum security inmates, most of them having ties to Mafias and mobs.[citation needed] Green Haven Correctional Facility also operates a Hot Kosher Food Program;[1] because of this, the prison has a large Jewish population.[2]
Notable inmates[edit]
- Charles Luciano, known as Lucky Luciano, founded the modern Cosa Nostra. He spent a brief period here in 1936 before his deportation to Italy.
- Arthur Shawcross, an American serial killer who served 15 years in Green Haven from 1972 to 1987.
- Ronald DeFeo, Jr., tried and convicted of killing his parents and four siblings at their home in Amityville, New York. The case inspired Jay Anson's novel The Amityville Horror.
- James McBratney, a convicted bank robber kidnapped Emanuel Gambino, the son of Thomas Gambino and nephew of Gambino crime family patriarch Carlo Gambino and murdered by John Gotti, Angelo Ruggiero and Ralph Galione in a highly publicized mob execution
- Robert Golub, convicted for the murder of 13-year-old Kelly Anne Tinyes, who lived five doors away from his home. She was killed inside his home in Valley Stream, New York, on March 3, 1989. On March 3, 2009, this case was reopened.
- John Giuca, whose trial has been the subject of intense media attention following his mother's undercover operation to expose juror misconduct.
- John Gotti, (October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.[3] Gotti and his brothers grew up in poverty and turned to a life of crime at an early age. Operating out of the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, Gotti quickly rose to prominence, becoming one of the crime family's biggest earners and a protégé of Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce.
- Nicky Barnes is an American former criminal drug lord and crime boss.
- Joey Gallo (April 7, 1929 – April 7, 1972), also known as "Crazy Joe" and "Joe the Blond", was a celebrated New York City gangster for the Profaci crime family, later known as the Colombo crime family. Gallo initiated one of the bloodiest mob conflicts since the 1931 Castellammarese War and was murdered as a result of it.
Correction officer deaths[edit]
There have been at least two deaths of correction officers in the line of duty.
The first was of Donna Payant on May 15, 1981, who disappeared while working at the prison. Her body was later found in a garbage dump 20 miles away, sexually violated and strangled, similar to the bodies of victims of serial killer Lemuel Smith, an inmate at the prison. A bite mark on Payant's chest also matched Smith's tooth pattern. It was determined that Smith had sexually assaulted and strangled Payant in the prison chaplain's office before putting her body in a trash bag and throwing it out with the trash.
On January 31, 2007, a Correction Officer in Tower One was found dead due to an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Fire and police were dispatched around 10:30 p.m., when they found the hatch to the ladder blocked, they used a Beekman Fire Department ladder truck to break in and get access. The tower was closed for investigation, and the death was deemed a suicide.[4]
Previous lethal injection facility[edit]
Capital punishment was reinstated in New York in 1995, fulfilling Governor Pataki's campaign pledge. In 2004, in People v. LaValle, the New York Court of Appeals struck down the statute as unconstitutional under the New York Constitution (at the time, only two individuals were under a sentence of death). Although several individuals were sentenced to death, none were executed, and the Court of Appeals later commuted the sentence of the final individual under a sentence of death in New York (People v. John Taylor, 2007). In 2008, Governor Paterson ordered the lethal injection equipment removed.
- The Alternatives to Violence Project was conceived at the prison in 1975 as a workshop.
Bard Prison Initiative[edit]
The Bard Prison Initiative, which seeks to reduce rates of recidivism and offer prisoners college education and tutoring, operates at multiple prisons including Green Haven.
In the media[edit]
Inmates and correctional officers at Green Haven were featured in the PBS Frontline program A Class Divided.[5]
- ^ Green Haven Correctional Facility Directive 08/13/2013
- ^ "A Jewish Ex-Con Recalls Keeping Kosher with the Faithful in Prison". The Daily Beast. 2014-05-11. Retrieved 2014-05-11.
- ^ http://www.mobbedup.com/mob-bosses/john-gotti/
- ^ "Green Haven guard commits suicide at work". Poughkeepsie Journal. 2007-02-01. Retrieved 2007-02-15.[dead link]
- ^ A Class Divided transcript
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDE123FF931A35751C0A9619C8B63 NY Times Article On Guard Suicide.
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Elevation: | 273 feet Estimated |
Magnetic Variation: | 14E, (1990), [12E (2015)] |
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Ownership: | Privately owned |
Activation: | 07/1993 |
Control Tower: | no |
ARTCC: | Los Angeles Center (ZLA) |
FSS: | Hawthorne FSS (HHR) |
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Go start your own thread, troy.
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OK , I will admit to a tiny man-crush for RG .
My question is , what will he run for NASCAR . Car ? Races ? |
Any word on who will carry the water(2nd truck)??
I just got done ordering 3 stickers and I saw this thread sitting here. It made my night. Go ROBBY!!! Chinga le the FROGS! |
Robby Did Race Bikes at one time ! Did You know that??? |
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I'll admit I was not the biggest RB fan at the beginning, but like a stong fungus he has grown on me.
After watching him race in the Dakar these past few years his skill, passion and the gusto he brings to the race have won me over. He certainly brings out the inner child in me. http://api.ning.com/files/fOx4UMMDlA...650&height=433 He just need to dial the Go-For-Broke driving style back a tiny notch and get a professional support crew that does not consist of a bunch of dumb flat billers. GO RB! :clap:clap |
Dayum he was haulin' ass! I saw that on TV but it was much better form that angle. |
I like the story about RG last year blowing through a corner and jumping off a cliff....landing on the downslope without missing a beat and rejoining the road to carry on.
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I talked to him at the B1000 this year and I got the impression that the Dakar was not in the cards this year. I hope I'm wrong
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Clarky speaks to no man unless you pay him the right money. Anyways, be done by tomorrow after I get home from school.
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The Italian harpsichordist, Anna Paradiso, eceived her solo diplomas in piano with honors and in harpsichord with full marks, and she has won several piano-competitions in Italy. She went on studying harpsichord for Gordon Murray in Vienna. With an academic career in Italy, at the Oxford University and in Sweden, she finally resumed a successful career in music. She received a Master in harpsichord at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Mayumi Kamata and Ulf Söderberg. She also studied Italian Baroque music and basso continuo at the Conservatorio "Cimarosa" in Avellino (Italy) with Enrico Baiano (Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini, Naples). At the same time, she had lessons on French music with Christophe Rousset in Paris. She also played for Ton Koopman in a master-class. Parallel to this, Anna Paradiso has being studying the original sources on basso continuo - with particular attention to the Italian ones - and has undertook an in-depth research on original fingerings applied to historically informed-practice. She aqlso holds a PhD in classical Latin poetry. Anna Paradiso performs to increasing critical acclaim, with recordings for BIS and concerts in prestigious festivals in Japan, the USA, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Germany and UK. She has performed and has projects with several ensembles and orchestras: Mellersta Österbotten Kammarorkester (Finland), Arte dei Suonatori (Poland), Gävle Symfoniorkester, Stockholms Bachsällskap (Stockholm), Ängbyorkester (Stockholm), Harmonia orchestra dell'Università di Bari (Italy), Florilegium Vocis (Italy). She has also performed concertos with orchestras as a soloist in several occasions (for instance with Styrsjö kammarsolisten, Birmingham Conservatoire String Ensemble, members of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, etc.). Anna Paradiso is co-founder of the Baroque ensemble Paradiso Musicale together with her husband Dan Laurin (recorder), Henrik Frendin (viola) and Mats Olofsson (cello). Paradiso Musicale's first recording for BIS ("The Father, the Son and the Godfather"), with music by J.S. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann, was "BBC Music Magazine Chamber Music Choice of the month" in February 2012 and received enthusiastic reviews all over the world. Together with Dan Laurin Anna recorded for BIS "Songs of Yesterday", with forgotten treasures from 1900 composed for recorder and piano or harpsichord which was very well received by the international press. Her first solo album with BCR, "Cembalo Paradiso", which came out in June 2012, is a powerful, personal interpretative statement that combines new musicological research with a typical Italian temperament. It includes solo works and concertos with orchestra from Italy, France, Germany and England between 1600 and 1900. Among the next projects, there are three recordings for BIS with music by Antonio Vivaldi and Roman. Anna Paradiso has also researched in the vast repertoire of semi-unknown music from Naples, in the library of San Pietro a Majella. Her next solo album will be a collection of unknown and more famous baroque pieces for harpsichord from this city. Anna Paradiso is now resident in Sweden. She has given lectures in several European conservatories and courses (UK, Finland, Italy, Sweden) on classical rhetoric and baroque music and has been part of a didactic project at the Greenwich College in London. She teaches rhetoric and harpsichord at the Baroque Music Summer School "Style Matters", in Puglia (Italy).
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A review by Alma A. Hromic
But it is this supposed star-drive that goads the less-than-honorable moiety of the human species to do unconscionable acts. The
alien Qanska, in the meantime, have a problem of their own -- two, in fact, because the central predicament is exacerbated by the
fact that they are not "a problem-solving race" and cannot even think about trying to begin dealing with the main issue because
they don't know where to begin. Enter Manta, or Matt Raimey as he used to be known in his previous existence as a human being. The
humans are using him as a spy amongst the Qanska; the Qanska have their own agenda. Manta, caught in the middle, has his central
dilemma put into a nutshell for him by one of the Qanska elders: some of the Qanska believe he is now Qanskan, and has lost his
human abilities, and therefore can't help his adopted species; or he remains quintessentially human, and therefore a threat to the
Qanska, and won't help them.
The other side of the equation has put the situation in its own nutshell, and I think I see the glimmer of the genesis of this novel
in the anecdote that the humans use to illustrate the situation -- the old story of a scout sent to infiltrate the native tribes,
and report back to his commanding officer.
The Colonel says, "And what do you have to tell me?"
The scout responds, "Get off our land."
Timothy Zahn's previous book, Angelmass, left me largely unmoved with its almost contrived plot and pages of what somehow
came off, despite the author's advanced degree in the subject, sounding like pseudo-physics to me. I kept on looking for the
verve and the sheer momentum of another Spinneret, and never quite found it.
Manta's Gift, although not a Spinneret either, is a much more satisfying book. It does achieve what a depressingly large
number of books achieve these days -- make me thoroughly ashamed of at least a certain subset of my species. Sometimes I am left
thinking that we are simply not principled enough to go to the stars and deal with people who don't renege on a deal on a whim
because the other guys have something we want and we want it badly enough to lie, cheat, coerce, extort, blackmail and even kill
for it, before we'll deal for it with some semblance of honor. It also, however, makes me very proud of another subset of those
same species -- the kind that will sacrifice their careers, their reputations, their comfortable existence and even their lives
if necessary in order to stand in the way of the other kind. As long as there is this balance, even, the human race will muddle
through somehow.
As with every story, there are probably nits to pick along the way -- but there is one thing about Manta's Gift that
supersedes nit-picking, and is definitely rare enough to make a note off. It's the sort of story that makes you want to stand
on your chair and cheer out loud. And that's probably the highest praise a storyteller can receive.
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Having sailed before from San Diego R/T to Hawaii we decided to try a similar trip leaving from S.F. this time. Our first trip had been on the Celebrity Infinity, while this one was on the Star Princess. My wife and I travelled with good friends and were looking for lots of sea days and an interesting group of days on land. This time our balcony cabin was on the Caribe Deck with a balcony about twice as deep as we had on other trips. Our room seemed standard in terms of overall size, but there was plenty of room for hanging clothes along with the usual assortment of drawers, nooks and crannies for all of our stuff.
We stayed for 4 nights at the Best Western Tuscan Inn on Fisherman's Wharf. It was a great location and the inside room we chose worked out well to avoid outside noise. Prices were typical of that area and the cost included nightly wine and appetizers. We booked this outside of our arrangements for the cruise. I would recommend the hotel and definitely More
would stay there again. Given our usual collection of bags getting to the ship was easy as pier 35 was very close to our hotel.
We had been on the Star Princess and enjoyed the Piazza with Vines (wine bar and free tapas, sushi), The international cafe with a variety of sandwiches, salads and a daily soup selection. The piazza was designed to be a hub area on the ship and again had a chance to listen to music and watch performers.
We found the food choices pretty good and food quality the same. I do think that portion size particularly for most meats was small. But we never walked away hungry. All our dinners were in the Amalfi dinning room set aside for traditional dining. The room was attractive without to much glitz. We dined much earlier than in the past at 7:45, and getting to this room was a bit tricky. I think this is a design flaw shared by many of the similar Princess ships. You can't go through ship and must take only 2 elevators.Service by our waiter, Ronald, and assistant waiter, Marabell was outstanding both professional and warm. Our headwaiter, Giovanni helped us nightly with special requirement diets. The dining room team did a great job!!
Most of our other meals were taken in the Horizon Court (buffet). There was enough choice for us and service with juices, tea coffee was well done. We also tried the Pub Lunch with British style food for a change of pace. We also went to the main dinning rooms for a few lunches and food and service continued to be very good. As a change of pace we also went to the 2 alternate restaurants for dinner and found the steak and Italian food matched the service.
Entertainment was a mixed bag though there was a good variety of types. Some production shows were quite good particularly the British Invasion one, but the Destination show with original music was not as much to my taste. Variety acts also were mixed with comedians not getting me to laugh as much, but I love magicians and jugglers. Performances in the lounges were ok.
Lots of lectures on this long voyage and both the naturalist and the anthropologist were very good, interesting and informative. Tried the casino only once just to make sure that my donations were recorded, and at least part of the casino was smoke free.Both embarkation and disembarkation went smoothly. Getting off of the ship at the end of our trip was particularly excellent. My wife needed assistance by staff and this was provided regularly throughout the trip. The entire ship staff was welcoming and friendly so you felt very good about coming back to the ship at the end of long day of sightseeing. I would definitely sail the Star Princess again. Hopefully as Princess rolls out larger ships they will not lose sight of customer service.
Only took one shore excursion with the ship. This was on Hawaii and our visit to the Tropical Gardens was excellent with the bus driver doing a great job. The gardens were beautiful and they even provided tram service down a steep boardwalk so you get past this ravine if you had some mobility issues. The rest of our trip as it was flatter in most places and had places to rest.
Our cabin attendant did the usual job we have come to expect on a cruise. Our cabin was kept clean and like other staff members on the ship we also had a warm good morning or evening when we past him.
One comment about the itinerary. I would have skipped Ensenada. We only were there for about 4 hours and on last trip to Hawaii Celebrity gave us one more day in Hawaii and a token stop in Ensenada for paper work to meet foreign flagged vessel requirements. Hopefully Princess in the future will try to maximize the time spent in Hawaii. Less
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The Bharatiya Janata Party will organise a "long march to Dhaka" on Monday next to protest alleged atrocities on religious minorities in Bangladesh. The party has raised five-point demands to ensure the safety and defend the rights of minority groups in the neighbouring country.
BJP's Tripura State unit president Sunil Dasgupta said on Saturday that hundreds of party workers and supporters would try to breach the border at Akhaura in Agartala on March 18. He said Central leaders of the party had approved the agitation programme.
"We know we will be prevented at the border, but we cannot remain silent given unending atrocities on minorities, especially Hindus, in Bangladesh," Mr. Dasgupta said.
He gave a detailed account of attacks on minority communities and their places of worship across Bangladesh. "The Hindus in Bangladesh have no security and are vulnerable to assaults," he said.
The BJP held Jamaat-e-Islami and its students' wing responsible for the current phase of religious unrest in Bangladesh that began after the War Crimes Tribunal sentenced to death an Islamic cleric and handed life term to another. The party earlier raised the issue in the Lok Sabha and demanded intervention of the Central government to protect the Hindus.
The minorities had accounted for 46 per cent of the population in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, at the time of the Partition in 1947 and the figure reduced to 28 per cent in 1970; Hindus now accounted for 10 per cent of the population, the BJP claimed.
Mr. Dasgupta lambasted major parties like the Congress and CPI (M) for turning a blind eye to the volatile situation in Bangladesh. He claimed even minorities in India were not safe at the hands of these parties.
The BJP demanded stringent action against culprits responsible for the atrocities; security and safety of people from minority groups; a separate ministry to look after the welfare of minorities; compensation to affected people; reconstruction and protection of religious places in Bangladesh.


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Abstract: | The dynamics of diffusion of electrons and ions from the laser-produced plasma from a multielement superconducting material, namely YBa2Cu3O7, using a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser is investigated by time-resolved emission-spectroscopic techniques at various laser irradiances. It is observed that beyond a laser irradiance of 2.6 \xC3\x97 1011 W cm-2, the ejected plume collectively drifts away from the target with a sharp increase in velocity to 1.25 \xC3\x97 106 cm s-1, which is twice its velocity observed at lower laser irradiances. This sudden drift apparently occurs as a result of the formation of a charged double layer at the external plume boundary. This diffusion is collective, that is, the electrons and ions inside the plume diffuse together simultaneously and hence it is similar to the ambipolar diffusion of charged particles in a discharge plasma |
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Abstract: | Laser produced plasma from silver is generated using a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. Optical emission spectroscopy is used to carry out time of flight (TOF) analysis of atomic particles. An anomalous double peak profile in the TOF distribution is observed at low pressure. A collection of slower species emerge at reduced pressure below 4 X lO-3 mbar and this species has a greater velocity spread. At high pressure the plasma expansion follows the shockwave model with cylindrical symmetry whereas at reduced pressure it shows unsteady adiabatic expansion (UAE). During UAE the species show a parabolic increases in the expansion time with radial distance whereas during shock wave expansion the exponent is less than one. The angular distribution of the ablated species in the plume is obtained from the measurement of optical density of thin films deposited on to glass substrates kept perpendicular to the plume. There is a sharp variation in the film thickness away from the film centre due to asymmetries in the plume. |
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Abstract: | Plasma generated by fundamental radiation from a Nd:YAG laser focused onto a graphite target is studied spectroscopically. Measured line profiles of several ionic species were used to infer electron temperature and density at several sections located in front of the target surface. Line intensities of successive ionization states of carbon were used for electron temperature calculations. Stark broadened profiles of singly ionized species have been utilized for electron density measurements. Electron density as well as electron temperature were studied as functions of laser irradiance and time elapsed after the incidence of laser pulse. The validity of the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium is discussed in light of the results obtained. |
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Abstract: | Irradiation of a Polymethyl methacrylate target using a pulsed Nd-YAG laser causes plasma formation in the vicinity of the target. The refractive index gradient due to the presence of the plasma is probed using phase-shift detection technique. The phase-shift technique is a simple but sensitive technique for the determination of laser ablation threshold of solids. The number density of laser generated plasma above the ablation threshold from Polymethyl methacrylate is calculated as a function of laser fluence. The number density varies from 2×1016 cm-3 to 2×1017 cm-3 in the fluence interval 2.8-13 J · cm-2. |
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Abstract: | The emission features of laser ablated graphite plume generated in a helium ambient atmosphere have been investigated with time and space resolved plasma diagnostic technique. Time resolved optical emission spectroscopy is employed to reveal the velocity distribution of different species ejected during ablation. At lower values of laser fluences only a slowly propagating component of C2 is seen. At high fluences emission from C2 shows a twin peak distribution in time. The formation of an emission peak with diminished time delay giving an energetic peak at higher laser fluences is attributed to many body recombination. It is also observed that these double peaks get modified into triple peak time of flight distribution at distances greater than 16 mm from the target. The occurrence of multiple peaks in the C2 emission is mainly due to the delays caused from the different formation mechanism of C2 species. The velocity distribution of the faster peak exhibits an oscillating character with distance from the target surface. |
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Abstract: | Optical limiting and thermal lensing studies are carried out in C70–toluene solutions. The measurements are performed using 9-ns pulses generated from a frequencydoubled Nd:YAG laser at 532 nm. Optical limiting studies in fullerene molecules lead to the conclusion that reverse saturable absorption is the major mechanism for limiting. Analysis of thermal lensing measurements showed a quadratic dependence of thermal lens signal on incident laser energy, which also supports the view that optical limiting in C70 arises due to sequential two-photon absorption via excited triplet state (reverse saturable absorption). |
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Abstract: | Time resolved optical emission spectroscopy is employed to study the expansion dynamics of C2 species in a graphite plasma produced during the Nd : YAG ablation. At low laser fluences a single peak distribution with low kinetic energy is observed. At higher fluences a twin peak distribution is found. It has been noted that these double peak time of flight distribution splits into a triple peak structure at distances >_ 17mm from the target surface. The reason for the occurrence of multiple peak is due to different formation mechanisms of C2 species |
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Abstract: | High resolution optogalvanic spectrum of the (11, 7) band in the first positive system of nitrogen molecule has been recorded from 17179 to 17376 cm- 1. Assignment of 432 rotational lines belonging to the 27 branches of this band has been carried out. |
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Abstract: | The effect of ambient gas on the dynamics of the plasma generated by laser ablation of a carbon target using 1.06 μm radiation from a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser has been investigated using a spectroscopic technique. The emission characteristics of the carbon plasma produced in argon, helium and air atmospheres are found to depend strongly on the nature and pressure of the surrounding gas. It has been observed that hotter and denser plasmas are formed in an argon atmosphere rather than in helium or air as an ambient. |
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Abstract: | Thermal lensing effect was studied in aqueous solutions of rhodamine B using 532 nm, 9 ns pulses from a Nd:YAG laser. A low intensity He-Ne laser beam was used for probing the thermal lens. Results obtained show that it is appropriate to use this technique for studying nonlinear absorption processes like two photon absorption or excited state absorption and for analyzing dimerization equilibria. |
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Abstract: | The laser produced plasma from the multi-component target YBa2CU3O7 was analyzed using Michelson interferometry and time resolved emission spectroscopy. The interaction of 10 ns pulses of 1.06 mum radiation from a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at laser power densities ranging from 0.55 GW cm-2 to 1.5 GW cm-2 has been studied. Time resolved spectral measurements of the plasma evolution show distinct features at different points in its temporal history. For a time duration of less than 55 ns after the laser pulse (for a typical laser power density of 0.8 GW cm-2, the emission spectrum is dominated by black-body radiation. During cooling after 55 ns the spectral emission consists mainly of neutral and ionic species. Line averaged electron densities were deduced from interferometric line intensity measurements at various laser power densities. Plasma electron densities are of the order of 1017 cm-3 and the plasma temperature at the core region is about 1 eV. The measurement of plasma emission line intensities of various ions inside the plasma gave evidence of multiphoton ionization of the elements constituting the target at low laser power densities. At higher laser power densities the ionization mechanism is collision dominated. For elements such as nitrogen present outside the target, ionization is due to collisions only. |
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Abstract: | Measurement of thermal lensing signal as a function of laser power made in Rhodamine B solutions in methanol give clear evidence of two photon absorption process within certain concentration ranges when 488 nm Ar+ laser beam is used as the pump source. Only one photon process is found to occur when 514 nm and 476 nm beams are used as the pump. |
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Abstract: | The dual-beam thermal lens technique has been found to be very effective for the measurement of fluorescence quantum yields of dye solutions. The concentration-dependence of the quantum yield of rhodamine B in methanol is studied here using this technique. The observed results are in line with the conclusion that the reduction in the quantum yield in the quenching region is essentially due to the non-radiative relaxation of the absorbed energy. The thermal lens has been found to become abberated above 40 mW of pump laser power. This low value for the upper limit of pump power is due to the fact that the medium is a resonantly absorbing one. |
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Abstract: | Pulsed photoacoustic measurements have been carried out in liquid CS2 using 532 nm radiation from a frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser. Variation of signal amplitude with laser fluence clearly indicates the role of multiphoton processes in the generation of photoacoustic effect. It is also shown that four photon induced dissociation and five photon induced ionization are likely processes in CS2 and 532 nm radiation. |
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Abstract: | This thesis is entitled "OPTICAL EMISSION DIAGNOSTICS OF LASER PRODUCED PLASMA FROM GRAPHITE AND YBa2Cu3O7. The work presented in this thesis covers the experimental results on the plasma produced with moderately high power laser with irradiance range in between 10 GW cm 2 to 100 GW cm -2. The characterization of laser produced plasma from solid targets viz. graphite and high temperature superconducting material like YBa2Cu3O7 have been carried out. The fundamental frequency from a Q - switched Nd: YAG laser with 9 ns pulse duration is used for the present studies. Various optical emission emission diagnostic techniques were employed for the the characterization of the LPP which include emission spectroscopy, time resolved studies, line broadening method etc. In order to understand the physical nature of the LPP like recombination, collisional excitation and the laser interaction with plasma, the time resolved studies offer the most logical approach |
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Abstract: | Optical emission studies of C2 molecules in plasma obtained by Nd:YAG laser ablation of graphite in a helium atmosphere are reported for irradiances in the range (1–9:2/ x 1010 W cm−2. The characteristics of the spectral emission intensity from the C2 (Swan band) species have been investigated as functions of the distance from the target, ambient pressure and laser irradiance. Estimates of vibrational temperatures of C2 species under various irradiance conditions are made. Results of measurements performed under different ambient helium gas pressures are also discussed. |
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Abstract: | Optical emission studies of C2 molecules in plasma obtained by Nd:YAG laser ablation of graphite in a helium atmosphere are reported for irradiances in the range (1–9:2/ x 1010 W cm−2. The characteristics of the spectral emission intensity from the C2 (Swan band) species have been investigated as functions of the distance from the target, ambient pressure and laser irradiance. Estimates of vibrational temperatures of C2 species under various irradiance conditions are made. Results of measurements performed under different ambient helium gas pressures are also discussed. |
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Dark and Stormy Night
There is one project on my WIP list that I have yet to blog about: Dark and Stormy Night (Storm at Sea). Despite the fact that I usually find naming quilts an arduous process, this one came unbidden. Probably because Snoopy in Peanuts started all of his creative writing endeavors with, "It was a dark and stormy night..." This always gave me a giggle (yeah, I know, I'm easily entertained). However, it seems perfect for this quilt.
The picture above is courtesy of my EQ5 program. I have not proceeded very far with the project. I'm still cutting the pieces. While the project will be color controlled in that all the blue pieces will be some shade of blue, the green pieces some shade of green, etc., each of the 64 blocks will be unique. No fabric repeats. That probably sounds crazy to a lot of quilters, but for me, it's fun. I'm still collecting fabrics for the purple and green pieces. The blue pieces are all cut.
My favorite colors are blue, purple, and green. Yet as a rule, I tend to pair them with at least one warm color. It always seemed to me that cool colors tend to need warm colors and visa-versa. Art theory tends to confirm this. My art background is very minimal, being limited to one art education class back when I thought I was going to become a teacher. The teacher spent a lot of time teaching us about the color wheel. Complimentary colors: those straight across the wheel from each other. Analogous colors: those right next to each other. Apparently, there are defined ways of putting colors together in order to create an attractive combination.
Then she told us about the painting "Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough.
Apparently Gainsborough broke the color theory rules when he created this painting. The theory is that warm colors give the feeling of moving toward the viewer, while cool colors--like blue--give the feeling of receding from the viewer. Gainsborough proved this didn't necessarily have to be the case, because Blue Boy feels fully front and center in this painting. Of course, if there are any warm colors to be found in this painting they are very muted.
I have no idea why this particular thing of the many things that art education teacher taught us stuck in my head, but it did. So my Storm at Sea is my own attempt to make cool colors come forward. I'm doing it by making the background totally black. A cheat compared to Gainsborough's beautiful painting. Nevertheless, there you have it.
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February 9, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Flight of industry from Punjab to Himachal
Capt blames Centre for sugar arrears
Implementation of ST laws |
Drive against fake auto parts
Business confidence up: NCAER survey
Seminar on biotech
BSNL customers pay 10 times more in Sirsa
Permanent structure
Changes in A-I on the cards
Flight of industry from Punjab to Himachal Chandigarh, February 8 He has asked the Chief Minister to outline steps that the state government has taken or proposed to take against such flight of industry as well as on designs of ultra right-wing Hindu forces that are out to create communal wedge in the state. Mr Mann expects Maharaja Sahib, as he has addressed him, to take concrete steps in this direction because he (Capt.) has the mandate of the people to run the government and the responsibility falls squarely on you and your government. In fact, Capt has already drawn the attention of the Prime Minister and requested that special economic package be given to Punjab on the same lines as applicable to Himachal Pradesh, J and K and Uttranchal to arrest the flight of industry as well as to promote economic development in Punjab. Mr Mann told TNS from New Delhi today that yet another factor that will add to industry taking to wings is the Friday raids by the enforcement wing of the Punjab State Electricity Board on the factories and residence of the relatives of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mr P.K. Dhumal, whose family is a business-partner in them in Jalandhar. Condemning such political vendetta, Mr Mann has said such poll-eve gimmicks would send wrong signals to other industrial entrepreneurs, as well, and also give a deadly blow to efforts of the state to attract industry to Punjab. When MPs meet here on February 10 to receive agenda brief on Punjabs pending issues with the Centre that they will be required to raise in the Parliament in the ensuing session, delay in release of the Punjab industrial policy and also conducting of such raids at the the instance of the ruling Congress would also find a mention.
Capt blames Centre for sugar arrears New Delhi, February 8 We are not in the position to clear the arrears of sugarcane farmers estimated at Rs 70 crore, but the Central Government is doing politics at our cost, he told newspersons here on Friday. More than 3 lakh tonne of sugar stocks, worth Rs 383 crore, are now lying with the sugar mills in Punjab. By the end of the ongoing sugar year (September-October) the stock is likely to touch the four lakh tonne mark, valued at Rs 500 crore. The Chief Minister said he had already taken up this issue with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at the recent National Development Council and also met Union Food Minister Sharad Yadav in this connection. The Punjab Government should be permitted to supply sugar in Punjab and adjoining States as the restrictions ultimately hit the resource-poor farmers. As the country is saddled with surplus sugar production with slim prospects of exports in the wake of surplus stocks in the world, the millers and sugar industry lobbies are jostling to get rid of accumulated stocks posing liquidity problem to them. With a carryover of stock of 103 lakh tonnes, India will have production of around 180 lakh tonnes with consumption estimated at 160 lakh tonne and export expected at 15 lakh tonnes during the year.
Implementation of ST laws Can the sales tax authorities compel the units to opt for lump sum composition in lieu of sales tax payable by them under the provisions of the Haryana General Sales Tax Act, 1973? This precisely appears to constitute one of the important questions that now-a-days form subject matter of discussion amongst the trade, industry and the tax experts in the context of the recent decision of the state government introducing system of lump sum composition in relation to plywood units. It is true the state government is competent to accept from any class of dealers, in lieu of the tax payable under the Act, for any period, by way of composition, a lump sum determined under section 26 of the Haryana General Sales Tax Act, 1973. A plain reading of the provisions of section 26 governing the procedure for lump, sum however, shows they do not make it mandatory for every dealer constituting specified class liable to pay tax to give option for lump sum. Having regard to the scheme of the Act envisaged in aforesaid provisions a dealer may or may not exercise the option of making payment in the form of lump sum composition. However, the sales tax authorities do not possess with any powers to compel them to switch over to lump sum composition. Obviously, therefore, the exercise being undertaken by the sales tax authorities in the State calling upon the plywood units to opt lump sum composition in lieu of sales tax they already have been paying on the sale or purchase of goods under the general laws entirely is inconsistent with the statutory provisions. Another significant aspect of the matter is that in consequent upon the directions the taxing authorities issued on January 08, 2003, the plywood units immediately had to deposit the amount of lump sum composition despite even when the decision of the state government of introducing lump sum composition was yet to be given a shape of a legislation in the form of a notification in terms of section 26 of the Act, 1973. The question is how the taxing authorities could proceed ahead of the legislation in this context having been passed? This procedure adopted is also violative of Article 265 of the Constitution of India, which says, no tax shall be levied or collected except by authority of law. What more is of interest to note is that the lump sum composition has been realized by the instrumentalities of the State even before the amount had become due for payment? There is no denying the fact that the quarter for which the payments have been charged as per the existing provisions come to an end on March 31, 2003. The approach, therefore, in recovering the payments proceed contrary to what expressly is provided in the provisions of sub-rule (4) of rule 29 of the Haryana General Sales Tax Rules, 1975 that lays down in unambiguous terms Every dealer liable to pay lump sum by way of composition under section 26 shall pay it in four equal quarterly instalments within one month from the end of the quarter and shall furnish the proof of payment viz treasury receipt to the appropriate assessing authority within ten days after the close of the specified period. |
Drive against fake auto parts New Delhi, February 8 While Mico has established an 'Anti-spurious' cell to tackle the problem of fake products, companies like Fenner India are conducting road shows etc whereas many others are also educating the dealers to campaign against fake automotive parts available in the market. "Spurious parts are today capturing even more than half of the total market. It is the products of the market leaders that are imitated, and are thus sold to the consumer at the same price as that of an original product", said Mr Deepak Bhagat, Senior Sales and Service Engineer of Lucas Indian Service. The damage done to the vehicle when one uses a fake product is not only in terms of paying the same price for an inferior product, the wear and tear of the vehicle is much more, which also reduces the vehicle's life. To distinguish between the original and the spurious product, packaging, company's stamp, aesthetics of the product have to be focussed upon. In case of shockers (Gabriel) , for instance, while the original shocker will have a smooth finish, current date code and stamping on inner tube with name and part number, the fake product, will lack consistency in shades, have a date code that is three - four years old or sometimes absent and bear stamping sometimes on both the tubes. Despite such differences, it is very difficult for a consumer to make out if the product is original or not because the consumer is not supplied both fake and original parts at a given point of time, said a TVS official. To create awareness , Lucas TVS is conducting campaigns at dealer points and also issues instruction notes to the dealers, Mr Bhagat said.
Business confidence up: NCAER survey New Delhi, February 8 According to the latest Business Expectation Survey of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the upswing in the current round is a reflection of business sentiments finally overcoming the adverse impact of macro factors, particularly the delayed monsoon and a confusing outlook due to the governments disinvestment process. The survey said the Business Confidence Index (BCI) recorded an impressive gain of 12.4 per cent over its level of 102.4 in the previous round, the rise more palpable with the index jumping 36 per cent over last years level. These factors, among others, had pegged the BCI at 102.4 in the last round in October 2002 and almost similar (102.3) in June 2002. The major components contributing towards this upward revision of expectation are increased capacity utilisation and improvement in investment climate, it said.
Seminar on biotech Chandigarh, February 8 The seminar was a joint effort of CII Northern Region and the Canadian High Commission, Chandigarh. He said the Punjab Government was setting up a centre of excellence for growth of biotechnology, where thrust areas would be agriculture, healthcare and environment. The Punjab Government is also keen on setting up R&D facilities. For commercialisation of activities, setting up of a biotech part is also being proposed, he said.
BSNL customers pay 10 times more in Sirsa Sirsa, February 8 Sources in BSNL revealed that landline customers here will have to pay Rs 1.26 for a call of 18 seconds on a mobile even if mobile holder is in Sirsa, whereas if a landline customer of Sirsa contacts a person at Faridabad by using 95 facility will have to pay Rs 1.26 for 30 seconds. In any other district headquarter there is no such disparity and landline customers can have access to any mobile holder at the local rates 180 seconds for Rs 1.26. A senior officer of BSNL admitted this disparity and said this a technical matter due to which customers will have to pay 10 times more for contacting a mobile holder.
by Praful R. Desai Permanent structure Q: Whether it can be said that the permanent construction raised by the tenant was with consent of the landlord in writing, as the law requires? Ans: In Vithal N. Shetti v Prakash N. Rudrakar [2002 (2) RCJ 213] The S.C. expressed the views thus: The plaint makes a positive averment of a negative fact, that is, the absence of consent in writing of the landlord to raising the permanent structure by the tenant over the tenancy premises. In the wake of such averment in the plaint, it was necessary for the tenant to have raised specific pleading in the written statement, setting out the particulars of the consent in writing. Not only the particulars are not pleaded but even the factum of the landlord having given consent in writing to the permanent construction is not stated. There is not even a whisper in the written statement of such consent, on which the tenant relies, having ever given by the landlord and forming part of the record of Municipal Corporation. If the Municipal Corporation had expressed its inability to make available certified copies of relevant records to the appellants the appelate should have taken steps before the trial court for summoning theoriginal records from the custody of the Municipal Authorities, which could have shown the bonafides of the plea raised by the tenant appellant. Nothing such was done. In this background the H.C. rightly declined to show its indulgence to a belated prayer for summoning the record from the custody of the Municipal Corporation. No fault can be found with the view taken by the H.C., said the S.C. in the opinion of the S.C. thus, the appeals are held avoid of any merit and liable to be dismissed. They are dismissed accordingly. However, in view of the fact that the tenant has remained in occupation in the suit premises for a long time and is running his commercial activities therefrom, the appellant is allowed 12 months time for vacating the suit premises subject to his filing usual undertaking within a period of four weeks from today. That way this appeal came to be dismissed. |
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Homer A. Jack
Homer A. Jack | |
Born | May 19, 1916 Rochester, New York |
Died | August 5, 1993 Swarthmore, Pennsylvania |
Nationality | United States |
Education | Meadville Theological School, Cornell University |
Occupation | political activist, Unitarian minister, committee chairmen |
Known for | social activism, helped found Congress of Racial Equality and National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) |
Religion | Unitarian Universalist |
Spouse(s) | Esther Rhys Williams, Ingebord Belk |
Homer A. Jack (May 19, 1916 – August 5, 1993) was an American Unitarian Universalist clergyman pacifist and social activist who helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE).
Early life and education[edit]
Jack was an only child to active socialist and freethinker parents. His grandparents had immigrated from central and eastern Europe to escape oppression and poverty. Like his parents, the child Jack was a radicalist nature-worshiper who distrusted organized religion.[1] He met Esther Rhys Williams at Munroe High School, in the early 1930s, and the two married in 1939. The marriage would produce two children and end in divorce in the early 1970s.
Though in 1940 Jack received a Ph.D. in biology from Cornell University, he decided to enter the Unitarian ministry. In 1944, he graduated from Meadville Theological School in Chicago.
While in Chicago, Jack led efforts and rallies to prevent the United States' entry into World War II and fought racial segregation. He was active in the publication of Rochester's No-War News and the Fellowship of Reconciliation and helped organize the anti-war 1942 Chicago sit-in and the anti-segregation Journey of Reconciliation.
From 1942 to 1943, he served as a Unitarian minister in Lawrence, Kansas, where he spoke out against Lawrence's "violently anti-Negro and anti-labor" stance.[1] He was the executive secretary of Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination from 1943 to 1948, and from 1948 to 1959 served as the minister of the Unitarian Church of Evanston, Illinois.
Jack co-founded and was the associate director of the American Committee on Africa from 1959 to 1960, co-founded and served as executive director to the Congress of Racial Equality and National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) from 1960 to 1964, and directed the Social Responsibility Department of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston from 1964 to 1970. From 1970 to 1983, he was the secretary general of the World Conference of Religions for Peace in New York. Simultaneously, from 1973 to 1984, he chaired the Non-Governmental Organization Committee on Disarmament at United Nations Headquarters.[2] He also remarried, to German Quaker Ingebord Belk.[1]
In 1984, he served as a minister once again in Winnetka, Illinois, a position he would hold until 1989. That same year, he was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize.[1]
Later life[edit]
In the late 1980s, Jack retired from official positions and moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he authored two books and continued to be active in various peace and human rights organizations.[2] He died of cancer in Swarthmore in 1993. Jack's autobiography was published posthumously in 1996 as Homer's Odyssey: My Quest for Peace and Justice.[2][3]
Published works[edit]
- The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi (editor) (1951)[4]
- The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings (editor) (1956)[5]
- Religion and Peace, Papers from the National Inter-Religious Conference on Peace (editor) (1956)
- Disarmament Workbook (1978)
- Disarm - or Die: The Second U.N. Special Session on Disarmament (1983)
- Mature Spirit: Religion Without Supernatural Hopes (co-authors Vincent Harding and Philip F. Mayer) (1987)
- World Conference on Religion and Peace (1993)[2]
- Homer's Odyssey: My Quest for Peace and Justice (autobiography) (1996)
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection: Homer A. Jack Papers (1930–1995)[2]
External links[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Co-Founder, Congress of Racial Equality". Congress of Racial Equality. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ a b c d e "Papers of Homer A. Jack, 1930 -1995". Swarthmore College. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ "Reports and Writers: Homer A. Jack". Reporting Civil Rights; the LOA Anthology. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ Gandhi, Mohandas (1951). Homer A. Jack, ed. The wit and wisdom of Gandhi. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-43992-5.
- ^ Jack, Homer A. (1956). The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings. Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3161-1.